In the heart of the history

The legendary Gallo-Roman history of Lugdunum at the top of the Fourvière hill and the splendor of the French Renaissance in the heart of Old Lyon are exhibited in the 5th district of Lyon. A true open-air museum: Saint-Jean cathedral, Saint-Georges churches, Saint-Paul, old cobbled streets, traboules that weave real secret networks. The Gadagne and Lugdunum museums welcome you for a journey through time.

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Ultra boucle de la Sarra

Départ et arrivée : esplanade de la Sarra

Are you up for a timed 6-hour solo race or 3 person relay on a 2km circuit? Two worlds collide, the friendliness of timed races and the fun of a Lyon...

C'est canon ! L'art chez les Romains

Lugdunum - Musée et Théâtres romains

Lugdunum – Roman Museum and Theatres presents a major exhibition exploring the relationship with art and cultural heritage 2,000 years ago. Encounter...

Les Tupiniers du Vieux Lyon

Quartier Saint-Jean

Since 1986, 120 potters from France and abroad have come together each year to exhibit on one of the largest markets in France.

Roman Baths

Dating from the 2nd and 3rd centuries, the baths are located at the back of a building. In this area of Fourvière hill, densely populated during...

Eglise Saint Just

Remains of the foundations of the monumental church of Saint Justus, built at the end of the 4th c., extended and modified in medieval times (12th -...

Eglise Notre Dame du Point du Jour

This church is considered by many as the most beautiful modern church in Lyon. It was built in 1972 to replace the former church in Massues...

Eglise Sainte Anne de Ménival

One of the last churches built in the Lyon area by the architect Stéphane Curtelin. Modern sacred artistic style. It is part of the “3 Paroisses” with...

Résidence de la Sarra wall painting

3000 m² painted wall holding the record for the biggest trompe-l’oeil in Europe. It shows people from the neighbourhood immortalised in their daily...

Palais Saint Jean

This former archbishop’s palace (13th - 19th), a bishop’s palace, was bought in 1909 to be used for the 5th arrondissement's library. The frontage on...

Fontaine Saint Jean

The fountain was built from plans by the Lyon-based architect René Dardel, who wanted to reproduce certain details of a well that Philibert de l'Orme...

Cour des Loges wall painting

This 400 m² painted wall was created on a canvassed wall (waterproof). It shows a trompe-l'oeil curtain of a theatre set being raised inside the Cour...

Fort Saint Irénée

The fort site still shows signs of its successive occupations; firstly, in Gallo-Roman times, the start point of the Gier aqueduct and the Trion...

Fontaine du Taurobole

Located in the Saint Just quarter, the Fontaine du Boeuf, or Taurobole, is the oldest fountain in Lyon. Completed in 1828, it was listed as a...

Palais de Bondy

Built from 1902 to 1904, the “Palais des Expositions" features Lyon’s coat of arms and motto: “avant, avant Lion le melhor”. It has a set of huge...

Courtyard at 8 Rue Juiverie - Gallery by Philibert Delorme

This inner courtyard features a gallery designed by local architect Philibert Delorme in the sixteenth century. It is a rare example of Italian...

Basilique de Fourvière observatory tower

Part of the left wing of the basilica, the tower has an orientation table at the top, after 260 steps. At the end of the construction of the basilica,...

Traboule 42 Montée St Barthélémy - Montée Cardinal Billé

Traboule inside the Lorette house (or the house of Pauline Jaricot)

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